Gustavo Dudamel Quotes

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• It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
• The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
• Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's…
• My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with…
• My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right -…
• I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me…
• When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.
• Music is a fundamental human right
• Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
• I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!
• I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.
• I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
• I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.
• I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
• It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
• Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
• My material life is simple.
• When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
• Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
• With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

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